The Floyd Acceptances’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 666 · 1868
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 23 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (43 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill (1947), Office of Personnel Management v. Richmond (1990)
68 federal appellate · 23 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 21 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Washington County v. Durant
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no officers in this government, from the President down to the most subordinate agent, who does not hold office under the law, with prescribed duties and limited authority. And while some of these, as the President, the-Legislature, and the judiciary, exercise powers in some sense left to the more general definitions necessarily incident to fundamental law found in the Constitution, the larger portion of them are the creation of statutory law, with duties and powers prescribed and limited by that law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whenever negotiable paper is found in the market purporting to bind the government, it must necessarily be by the signature of an officer of the government, and the purchaser of such paper, whether the first holder or another, must, at his peril, see that the officer had authority to bind the government.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is to be , kept in mind that the protection which commercial usage throws around negotiable paper cannot be used to establish the authority by which it was originally issued.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.